If the midterms were a referendum on whether trans athletes should be barred from women’s sports, or the White House ballroom should be gorgeously renovated, or God should be identified as “nonbinary,” then Republicans would have a clear and confident closing message.
Unfortunately for the GOP, voters are less concerned with the Christian deity’s preferred pronouns than with their own cost of living. Which is understandable: Diesel fuel prices just hit a record high, mortgage rates are climbing, and groceries keep getting more expensive.
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Many Republican speakers did address the subject of affordability in Dallas. And the party’s broad narrative is straightforward enough: Democrats created the cost-of-living crisis, Republicans alleviated it by cutting your taxes.
But this is a tough line to sell. Americans might still disdain President Joe Biden’s economic management. Yet they’re far more likely to blame high prices on the current president than the previous one, according to polls.
And not without reason. After all, it was Trump — not Biden — who engineered an oil shock and global trade war. Tellingly, on Wednesday night, all four battleground state Senate candidates — Ken Paxton, Jon Husted, Michael Whatley and Mike Collins — made no mention of the Iran war or of the president’s tariffs.
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We noticed.
LOL, this guy is only “prioritizing” the smash-and-grab of America - enriching himself and his grotesque family as he tries to rig the election.
All while he personally glues tacky shit on the WH walls and babbles about that fucking ballroom.
So it is a war.
Not if your the spouse of KIA soldier.
Affordability and gas prices are his major weaknesses so of course he says they don’t matter.
This is how narcissists process threat. It’s one of the reasons they seem fearless and act reckless.
This war is now entirely about him saving face, performing as if he knows what he’s doing and is powerful. The reality is that his ego and ignorance was used by Israel to manipulate him into attacking Iran. He’s a dupe, boxed in, and bound to a policy that is accelerating the bleed-out of the US as a project.
It’s like he copied Putin’s stupid, stupid, fucking stupid homework
“World’s most powerful government” powerless to help mitigate corporate price gouging. Shocking
He’s never filled up a gas tank in his life.
the whole gop needs to be [redacted]The republicons are only good at breaking shit. They build nothing.
Pretty good at building fascist cults
The only cans I hate are Republicans
Ah, he’s always been a man of the people… /s
And israel over gaza And fascism over democracy And authotarianism over rights And sharpies over the constitution And business owners over consumers And white over colored And billionaires over poors And harp over melania And kids over adults
Now that the war exists, that is the correct choice. However, he’s also not trying to win the war, like at all. So, the US will just keep losing this conflict and suffering higher fuel and commodity costs. It’s all just so, so dumb.
